How thick and how high would you have to build a wall to deflect hurricanes from the Florida coast?

Question

Assuming money is no issue would it be possible? What woudl you build it out of?

Answer 1

"Assuming money is no issue" would make this a meaningless question. In that case you would make walls so huge that your main worry would be how to keep them from sinking Florida's coast. In reality, as a wall-builder you don't deflect the hurricane, you take whatever wind comes, try to resist the tidal surge, and hope someone else is providing a means to drain the heavy rainfall. Something on the order of 25-30 feet above mean sea level would be close for the seawall. It would probably be steel-coated concrete. I can't estimate the thickness or the depth of the necessary foundation, so I'll leave that to the Army Corps of Engineers.
How sweet it would be if you could make it mobile, like maybe a bunch of adjustable-buoyancy barriers that could be floated, moved to an expected high-surge area and sunk/anchored in place.

Answer 2

the best solution is to build heavy based not very high rised buildings along the coast and lease it for tourist and hotels and if there is a warning -- simple cancel the reservations.each and every buildings should be engineered with wind and earthquake proof design ,preferably triangle shape ,one flat rise towards the coast and a partial and engineered space between the buildings to let the water to blow th water onto the land area but restrict the max destructions .....

Answer 3

I don't think you could build a wall big enough to block hurrican's. It is all up to GOD if he wanted the hurrican to go threw the wall then he could. If you don't want nothing bad to happen from a hurrican just pray GOD will help.

Answer 4

I think you could destroy the hurricane in its tracks by getting a huge piece of plastic wrap and spread it over the ocean anywhere in the expected path of the storm. This would prevent furthur absorption of the warm tropical waters, and weaken the storm like when its over land. It would also kill the sea turtles though =(

Answer 5

Are you familiar with the biblical story the Tower of Babel

thats what would happen because the wall would need to be as high as the storm clouds making it very suceptible to overturning moment